On July 30, 2020, the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) issued a precedential decision holding, in effect, that the mark GUARANTEED RATE is too common for registration in the absence of a ...

Section IV of article 90 of the Mexican Law of Industrial Property (IPL) establishes an absolute ground for refusal based on the descriptiveness of the mark. This provision prohibits the registration ...

The Mexican Law of Industrial Property establishes in section IV of article 90, an absolute ground for refusal based on the descriptiveness of the mark. This prohibits registration of descriptive ...

In Saiwa SpA v Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market, the European Court of First Instance has found that even where the respective parties' goods were considered identical or substantially ...

“The Guide pays lip service to the Supreme Court’s ruling, but instead of instructing examiners to focus exclusively on evidence showing the significance of the mark to consumers, slips back towards ...